I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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